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...Panama-registered tanker was torpedoed off the Island of Aruba in a renewed outburst of Submarine activity and headquarters of the U.S. Army at Port of Spain, Trinidad, said that two vessels were damaged by explosions apparently caused by torpedoes...
...strongest effort. Between its islands are scores of deep passages, in its coves thousands of spots from which destroyers, cruisers and patrol bombers could operate as soon as field repair facilities and oil-fuel supplies had been laid down. At the western foot of the Lesser Antilles, at Aruba in The Netherlands West Indies, is the world's largest oil refinery. At The Netherlands' Curacao near by are good commercial docks and workshops, an ample supply of fuel. Here, in the most valuable and most vulnerable area of the Caribbean, is the first outpost...
...tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line for a bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries...
Wealthier grew the Blausteins, fatter grew Pan Am. Pan Am acquired famed Lago Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, built the great Aruba island refinery in the Dutch West Indies. For 1932, Amoco and subsidiaries turned in a net profit of $4,149,200, up 1,075% from the year the Pan Am deal was made. But meanwhile Louis Blaustein awakened one morning to find his worst fears confirmed: Standard of Indiana, after quietly buying up Pan Am stock, was in control of the production and refining end of his business...
...began to feel the squeeze. First its domestic crude supplies and pipe lines were sold to a Standard of Indiana subsidiary. Next, in 1932, all Pan Am's foreign holdings were sold. The purchaser: Standard of New Jersey, which got the famed Lago properties and the Aruba refinery (now the heart of Standard of New Jersey's foreign production), a fleet of 29 tankers, plus refineries in Mexico, Germany. Amoco became dependent once more on Standard of New Jersey for its oil and gas, was right back where it had started...